The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation

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Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the se...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published November 18th 2004 by Oxford University Press (first published 2004)
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